LOUGHBOROUGH’S Swan In The Egg comedy club at The Swan In The Rushes is laying on more cracking entertainers on June 24.

Following the success of Charlie Chuck a couple of weeks ago, the comedy club returns tonight with Jim Smallman, who has been called “a laconic, sarcastic gag machine”

The comedian, a finalist in the Equity Comedian of the Year competition last year, touches on his odd life, his obsession for knowledge and his downright childish silliness.

Also appearing is Barnaby J. Thompson, who has been performing his poetry in his native Latvia since the age of five and was lauded as a possible messiah....

A spokesman said: “When he came to England he translated his work and performances accordingly but instead of the mass hysteria and trance states he was used to inducing in audiences all he got was laughter and mocking derision.

“It has been his mission ever since to break down these childish psychological defences that British audiences put up to resist him penetrating their psyche...”

The line-up is completed by the musings of maths teacher Dan Maxim and film buff Simon Gunnell, all brought to you by wayward-limbed compere James Hately.